Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:37:55 01/03/01
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On January 03, 2001 at 17:25:22, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >On January 03, 2001 at 16:53:57, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>The Compaq iPaq, at over 200 MHz and 32MB RAM, yet weighing 6 oz., sure >>looks like a winner. (Stereo sound, 320x240 resolution vs. Palm's 160x160, 4096 >>colors, and a lot more, for like $500 US.) > >Yes, a marvelous machine.Please buy it just to tell us how many Windows for >Pocket-PC crashes you have in a day! > >> >>Are there ANY strong chess programs for the PocketPC platform? If not, maybe >>it's time for one of you top-notch PC Chess programmers to team with (or hire) a >>WinCE expert to get yours ported and OWN the market! >> >>(I'd buy the device and your program!) > >Please don't get upset with my post. If you want a mobile chess machine, buy a >Palm (or a Visor) and Chess Genius for Palm. It's all that. Simple and >efective;and if you are not a chess master, most probably Genius for Palm will >defeat you or just give you a tremendous opposition. I got a Visor for my birthday last month, and bought Genius 1.2 and like it (it's a fine opponent but a pretty weak analyst). I'm just wondering what could be done with all that extra speed (206 MHz versus 33 MHz) and RAM (32 vs. 8 MB). I've heard that the code base for Genius 1.2 is a 1987 non-hashtable app. Something a lot more modern could be ported to the PocketPC, I'd think. I also want to use the device as an MP3 player without buying a dedicated $250 add-on (like you can for the Visor), plus would like the voice recorder, Excel, web browser, etc., all of which come standard with the iPaq. And, as a long-time Windows developer, I might find it easier to program for the iPaq (although I already have a full time job so probably wouldn't make the time anyway). By the way, I generally hate Windows and had heard awful things about earlier versions of WinCE. But I've heard pretty good things about the latest PocketPCs. And, of course, I lust for the speed/resolution/sound quality/features my Visor lacks.
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